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Larry Christiansen vs Lev Milman
US Amateur Team East (2005), Parsippany, NJ USA, rd 5, Feb-21
Spanish Game: Closed Variations. Keres Defense (C96)  ·  1-0

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May-13-24  steve7193: I'm only an A player. Why is white winning in the final position??
May-22-24  FM David H. Levin: <steve7193: I'm only an A player. Why is white winning in the final position??>

I wouldn't have thought that White was winning. Black seems to have ample time to meet the threat of 24.Ng4... followed by 25.Nf6+... or 25.Nh6+... (for example, by 23...Qh8). Meanwhile, Black has looming counterplay via moving one of his knights to c4.

Therefore, I share your mystification that the game ended this soon. The USATEs I'd attended had an initial time control of 50/2, and I'd be surprised if Black consumed two hours in this game. Perhaps the time control for later editions of the tournament involved a smaller time block.

May-22-24  Granny O Doul: A lot of incomplete game scores get posted. It's especially unlikely that Black would resign such a position at the USAT, because it is of course a team event.

As for the TC, it must be near 25 years since they went from 50/120 to 40/120. I was unhappy with the change, because after winning the match and after winning one's own game, the next most important thing was that the match be over after the first control, so that the whole team could travel together to whatever eating establishment they preferred.

May-22-24
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  perfidious: Have never played in Parsippany, but in Somerset, that was definitely the case; Atrium Drive and the immediate vicinity had nothing to offer.

There was a decent Chinese restaurant in Bound Brook and a pizza joint as one headed south on 527 towards New Brunswick, along with a 24-hour diner.

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